- Footnotes and why
- Jan. 18: Intro and orientation
- Jan. 20: Pre-industrial societies
- Jan. 25: Early (early!) Japan
- Feb. 1: Chinese influence(r)s (part 1)
- Feb. 3: Chinese influence(r)s (part 2)
- Feb. 8: Nara
- Feb. 10: Heian (part 1)
- Feb. 17: Heian (part 2)
- Feb. 22: Tale of Genji (1)
- Feb. 24: Tale of Genji (2)
- March 1: Warriors come into view
- March 3: Kamakura literature
- March 8: Alternatives to the research paper
- March 10: Tale of Heike (Heike monogatari)
- March 22: Mongols (1)
- March 24: Mongols (2)
- March 29: Muromachi (1)
- March 31: Muromachi (2)
- April 5: Muromachi aesthetics
- April 12: Warring States and first Europeans
- April 14: Unification
- April 19: Early Tokugawa/Edo
- April 21: Performance culture in Edo era Japan
- April 26: Haiku and ukiyo-e
- April 28: Late Tokugawa
- May 3: Semester in review
